Subject: Re: /sbin/umount should support umount_* (PR#698)
To: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/26/2003 13:55:25
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:51:48PM -0800, Simon Gerraty wrote:
> >Perhaps it makes sense to put a PID in the "mount arguments" handed to
> >the kernel, and have umount(8) check that. This could be useful for
> >shutting down some other types of file systems as well (AFS and some
> >FTP translators come to mind).
>
> Yes, that would probably do the trick - send it a SIGTERM and you're
> done.
Err, how does LFS do it? It has to kill lfs_cleanerd when the file system
is unmounted, right?
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>